EARTHQUAKE – 伊沙

Yi Sha《海地地震》
HAITI EARTHQUAKE

when the earthquake struck in haiti
it was very different
from the sichuan earthquake two years ago
for me it was
only a piece of news
200.000 people dead
one more thing on the news
I had time and leisure
to wonder at the name
Port Au Prince
sounds rather bourgeois
I had time to remember
many years ago
one of the poorest most autocratic lands
on the planet
had had a man-eating dictator

it was my education
teaching me to make a difference
from childhood they taught me to be chinese
no one taught me to be a child of the earth